Hide your front plate!
 

Came across this baby on e46fanatics.

http://www.ninosport.com/Mustang/License-Plate-Frames

Installed, Plate up
http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/o...SC_9923a-1.jpg

Installed, Plate Down (Right picture)
http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/o...on2copyb-1.jpg

that would be perfect to use thru our camera traffic lights! awesome. i always thought about this every since some of our traffic lights were equiped with cameras so if you ran a red light your picture is taken and you get your ticket thru the mail. finally someone invented this. but its a bit expensive for now.

... running red lights...

I like the idea but the execution is flawed. It looks terrible while it's up, worse than a stock license plate holder IMO. So it's only useful while you're parked or taking pictures of your car. At least in my state you need a front plate while driving down the road so I would need to leave it up in the "ugly" position every time I drove. It reminds me of this: http://www.break.com/index/digital_license_plate.html which is a much better execution of this idea, IMO.

hah I remember watching that demo before. This adapter is extremely useful for those who don't want to drill holes in their brand new bumper (if it's a sub-par replica). Also I don't know how the BMW plate holder mounts on the e46 M3 bumpers, perhaps you have to 'mount the mount' with screws/holes?

That would be unfortunate but I think it's just a bumper molding piece, similar to the way the license plate brackets work on e36s. Next time I see my moms car I'm gonna check.

Seems they omitted trim on the M3 & MTech II Coupe bumpers
http://www.ddmtuning.com/e36bumpers.html

MTech II for the sedan has trim.

For the e46 you have to drill through the bumber... the car comes with a Plate frame that gives it a cleaner/part of the bumper look. Out here in cali I only placed it for about a week and I used 3M tape to hold it on:biggrin:

Front plate laws are crap IMO, makes your vehicles look like crap and there is no real USE for them...:mad:

The use is so the Police have a nice, reflective target to fire laser speed check guns at.

Since new cars have no chrome to reflect, and very step windshields, this was brought back into law.

In CT it was two, then one, then back to two. I went years with only one, but then I got pinched for it and had to add the uglifier to the front...

My dad lost his during one of the several winter seasons off his ML320.. he loves parking into snow banks, I'm sure his plate is on a wall of some kid's room.

He's gotten a ticket for no plate once.. at a seatbelt checkpoint. That was like, 3 years ago, he hasn't gotten one since. I leave my front plate on, I'll take it off and put a delete strip if I'm taking pictures or going to a show, otherwise what do I care, saves me $60 later on.

+1, I hate having to look in my rearview every time I drive past a cop to see if he's pulling a u-turn in the middle of the road, I don't see why I can't just have it on my dash like I do, it's perfectly visible from the front of the car :mad:

ha. sounds bad. but sometimes ppl try to go thru the yellow lights and they're too late most of the time. which is why some cities installed these traffic light cameras.
plus, it now helps catch ppl talking on the phone or even texting.

Man, I'd love to see you try to hit your plate flipper when you realize you're about to run a red light :biggrin: The OP's sig from e46fanatics, he's got the rear on one of those plate hiders. He's got a euro plate on the back. He said he flips up the US plate whenever he drives around though.

still not legal, the plate has to be lit up by the lights above the plate

I think having one and a cop seeing you do it would be a bit worse than just getting pulled over for missing a front plate every once in a while.

I t-boned an 85' honda civic (their fault) and couldnt get my front license out of their car, i guess thats my version of a front license plate hider.